While the Democrat party mayoral primary in New York is stealing the headlines, those who have watched Marxist-Hegelian hybrid ideology overtake the party since the 1960s could have predicted this outcome.

Democrat voters in New York City have chosen Zohran Mamdani as their mayoral candidate. He is an avowed socialist Islamist who has never held a real job, gratuitously tosses around promises of giving away almost everything for free, has publicly stated his determination to defund the police, campaigned on tax-payer funding of “gender-affirming care,” and who vociferously defends all illegal immigrants, including those convicted of heinous crimes, from deportation.

Mamdani wants to empty the jails in New York, claiming that violence is an artificial construction. His commitment to socialist ideals is informed by his Islamic faith, which includes his refusal to retract or apologize for trafficking in incendiary antisemitic language such as “globalize the intifada” for over a decade in a city with two million Jews, second only to Tel Aviv.

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Mamdani is not an outlier among the candidates for public office that an increasingly schizophrenic Democrat party is choosing. Instead, he is the 2025 prototype. A decade ago, he would have been soundly rejected by the rank-and-file Democrat voter.

The primary reason the Democrat party finds itself in its current predicament is due to demographic changes within the party. Gone are the ranks of blue-collar workers and much of the middle class that made up the bulk of........

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